Baltazar Worley

Baltazar Worley (died summer 1700) was a pirate who operated in the West Indies.

Biography
Worley was born in The Bahamas in Nassau Port, and began a career in piracy with a fleet of three ships. He raided the Caribbean, mainly in the areas shortly off the shore of present-day Venezuela, where he plundered Spanish shipping. In summer 1700 Dutch admiral Gerard Callenburgh set out to kill him, and Worley attempted to retreat. He fled from the Venezuelan waters to the Atlantic Ocean north of present-day Suriname and French Guyane, but was tracked down. Two of his ships were sunk and one captured, and Worley was captured by the Dutch.

Worley was sentenced to death by hanging for piracy against Spain, Great Britain, the United Provinces, New Spain, the Thirteen Colonies, France, and Louisiana. He was hung in Paramaribo in Dutch Guyana.